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Internet Strategy (2/3): Money, Money, Money
In the previous post, we talked about the viability of internet businesses being tied to their profitability. <begin sarcasm> Wow, what a revelation! <end sarcasm> When looking to invest in an internet business, the most important question has always been, “How will you monetize it?” The good thing about internet businesses is that, despite the [...]
Presidential Elections and the Stock Market
Super Tuesday is coming up in a week and this year’s presidential elections are heating up. With all sorts of worries about the markets and the greater economy, can history enlighten us on what to expect? Maybe it can even tell us who to vote for!
Keynesian economics was first postulated in 1936 and became widely [...]
The Santa Claus Rally
Are the markets cyclical? Is society always doomed to repeat itself? It would seem that simple human nature and our fascination with using regressive analysis to predict future performance would almost mandate such behavior in the markets. We’ve all heard the old saying, “Sell in May and Go Away.” A few months ago, I posted [...]
A Dividend Primer
I realized in my update on the Curious Investments Equity Income Strategy that I’ve never really done a tutorial on dividends here at The Curious Investor. Dividend terminology can sometimes be confusing, but it’s good to understand them as there are periods in time when dividends become a very important part of returns from equity [...]
Required Rate of Return
Now that we know a few methods of estimating future growth, we will round out the analysis necessary for application in the discounted dividend model with a brief look at the Capital Asset Pricing Model which is often used for estimating required rate of return.
Obviously, when using the discounted dividend approach to valuation, you could [...]
Estimating Growth
The previous post introduced several discounted dividend models for valuing stocks. These models ask for an estimate of growth and required rate of return in order to work. While all estimates require some amount of “guessing” there are some methods which will help you to get more accurate results. Here, we deal with methods of [...]
